Hey fam, it's me, Amara.

Welcome to the TransLash podcast, a show where we tell trans stories to save trans lives.

Well, there are a few trans people who are facing the brunt of the current administration like trans kids and their families.

From sports bans to threats on gender affirming care, to renewed hostility in schools,

to the fact that having a trans kid and loving them can be the basis of changing custody in

certain states, the families of trans kids are facing pressure like never before. Now, of course, there has

been increased pressure across the last several years because of what's been going on in the states,

but now they are facing a series of invigorated assaults by the federal government, which we have

enumerated on this show from the beginning.

Now, with that, the families of trans kids are figuring out the best way to respond.

And some of them are deciding that with this kind of panoply of attacks on them,

that a solution is to leave the country.

That's why I wanted to talk today with prominent advocates,

Lizette and Jose Trujillo,

about their heart-wrenching decision to leave the United States

in order to protect their son and to do what's best for their family.

Being abroad does it mean we're out of the fray?

Being abroad means we have space to think about how we effectively support the organizing that's happening in the United States

and how we bring that information to communities who don't realize it's coming their way.

But before we get into this very sobering conversation,

we're going to start out as always, even now, with some trans joy.

Yeah. It can be easy to start believing that all of the anti-trans legislation and rhetoric means that the United States and especially conservative areas are wholly inhospitable to trans life.

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